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    Grateful Dead Hour no. 334

    Week of February 13, 1995

    Continuing an all-music sequence that began last week. "Playing in the Band" from this performance was included on the boxed set So Many Roads (1965-1995) - a powerful, scary peak of latter-day Grateful Dead improvisation. If I remember correctly, this is the jam that blew a circuit breaker in the sound system - an episode commemorated by the blown breaker on a plaque in Mickey Hart's studio.

    This set also includes one of only a handful of live performances of the lovely Hunter-Garcia ballad "Believe It or Not." In his lyrics compilation A Box of Rain, Hunter called this "a C&W lyric reminiscent of the kind of stuff I remember hearing coming form tavern jukeboxes in 1948, when my father would stop in to have a few while I waited out in the car." We found an unfinished studio recording of the song and included it on So Many Roads; no idea why it didn't stick in the band's repertoire.

    Enjoy!

    Grateful Dead 7/29/88 Laguna Seca Raceway, Monterey CA
    PLAYING IN THE BAND->
    DRUMS
    JAM->
    THE WHEEL->
    GIMME SOME LOVIN'->
    BELIEVE IT OR NOT->
    SUGAR MAGNOLIA

    Every Wednesday, we post a program from the Grateful Dead Hour archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists - by song title, show date, guest name, etc - at gdhour.com or on the GD Hour Search page, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at gdhour@dead.net.

    Thank you for listening!
    - David Gans

    Listen Now

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    awesome. Didn't get no satellite radio for Christmas... oh well--- Amazing show.....The playing is top notch. Laguna Seca is an epic place... never saw dead there... saw Bobby in I think 95 or 96 there. I can only inagine the scene and the fun the people had at that moments in time. omg... this show to me shows that if you gave up on the dead in the late 70's early 80's... you needed a flash back yo. Or future further attack....
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    D Thanks for posting # 333 ( and 334 this week ] . I ve owned a great audience copy of this show for a long time , but previous to that I used to have a copy of the 333 broadcast . If it werent for your broadcast in early 95 i probably wouldnt of discovered this show and its greatness properly as one should // The Dead played w much power in the summer of 88 . On a technical note , the band was Midi ing themselves bit by bit ; and that to me , and many , is quite gratifying This is a fine tour to seek out on tape ( ive always intelsely loved the 1st set of Silver stadium June 30 , great opener Box - cold rain - minglewood / an absolute knockout of an opener } .. Thanks
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Week of February 13, 1995

Continuing an all-music sequence that began last week. "Playing in the Band" from this performance was included on the boxed set So Many Roads (1965-1995) - a powerful, scary peak of latter-day Grateful Dead improvisation. If I remember correctly, this is the jam that blew a circuit breaker in the sound system - an episode commemorated by the blown breaker on a plaque in Mickey Hart's studio.

This set also includes one of only a handful of live performances of the lovely Hunter-Garcia ballad "Believe It or Not." In his lyrics compilation A Box of Rain, Hunter called this "a C&W lyric reminiscent of the kind of stuff I remember hearing coming form tavern jukeboxes in 1948, when my father would stop in to have a few while I waited out in the car." We found an unfinished studio recording of the song and included it on So Many Roads; no idea why it didn't stick in the band's repertoire.

Enjoy!

Grateful Dead 7/29/88 Laguna Seca Raceway, Monterey CA
PLAYING IN THE BAND->
DRUMS
JAM->
THE WHEEL->
GIMME SOME LOVIN'->
BELIEVE IT OR NOT->
SUGAR MAGNOLIA

Every Wednesday, we post a program from the Grateful Dead Hour archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists - by song title, show date, guest name, etc - at gdhour.com or on the GD Hour Search page, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at gdhour@dead.net.

Thank you for listening!
- David Gans

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Submitted by Jaime on Sat, 12/26/2009 - 08:36

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D Thanks for posting # 333 ( and 334 this week ] . I ve owned a great audience copy of this show for a long time , but previous to that I used to have a copy of the 333 broadcast . If it werent for your broadcast in early 95 i probably wouldnt of discovered this show and its greatness properly as one should // The Dead played w much power in the summer of 88 . On a technical note , the band was Midi ing themselves bit by bit ; and that to me , and many , is quite gratifying This is a fine tour to seek out on tape ( ive always intelsely loved the 1st set of Silver stadium June 30 , great opener Box - cold rain - minglewood / an absolute knockout of an opener } .. Thanks
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Submitted by Pizza_T on Sun, 12/27/2009 - 21:51

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awesome. Didn't get no satellite radio for Christmas... oh well--- Amazing show.....The playing is top notch. Laguna Seca is an epic place... never saw dead there... saw Bobby in I think 95 or 96 there. I can only inagine the scene and the fun the people had at that moments in time. omg... this show to me shows that if you gave up on the dead in the late 70's early 80's... you needed a flash back yo. Or future further attack....